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    D900K/NP9750 two optical drives problem...

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by vfxraven19, Nov 6, 2007.

  1. vfxraven19

    vfxraven19 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently bought another DVD-/+RW DL slim drive for my laptop in addition to the stock drive it came with. The bios sees both optical drives (new drive master, old one slave), however, in windows, it ONLY sees the new drive. Do I have to reinstall the chipset driver or something?
     
    vfxraven19, Nov 6, 2007
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    thats strange.

    I would recommend to go Device Manager, and Uninstall the "Secondary IDE Channels"

    then either Scan for new hardware, or Restart

    this will force XP to re-detect all optical drives connected to the Secondary IDE channel
     
    Gophn, Nov 7, 2007
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    vfxraven19 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Seems I needed to mark the drive 'enabled' in the bios>boot order screen. That's odd because the drive is detected in the bios, giving me the impression that it was already enabled/active.

    I did try uninstalling the 2nd IDE channel you mentioned before I fiddle around in the bios more, but no go. However enabling the device in the boot order menu (puts an ! next to it) did the trick.
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    o cool.

    glad it worked for ya.
     
    Gophn, Nov 7, 2007
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